To Charles Lyell [16 June 1848]
Summary
Comments on Ann Susan Horner’s escape in a dangerous incident at sea.
Compares addresses by William Buckland and CL, delivered at recent meeting of the Geological Society.
Discusses the views on Glen Roy in Chambers’ Ancient sea-margins [1848].
Speculates that Chambers wrote Vestiges [of creation (1844)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [16 June 1848] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.73) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1186 |
To J. E. Gray 28 [June 1848]
Summary
Mentions returning borrowed book by Camillo Ranzani.
Discusses loan of cirripede specimens from British Museum. "In truth never will a mountain in labour have brought forth such a mouse as my book on the Cirripedia. It is ridiculous the time each species takes me."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
Date: | 28 [June 1848] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.74) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1187 |
To Edward Cresy [5 or 12 July 1848]
Summary
Has written to William Buckland, recommending EC for position.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Date: | [5 or 12] July 1848 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 306 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1188 |
To J. S. Henslow 2 July [1848]
Summary
Criticises lecturing system in education and emphasis on classics. Has forgotten all his classical knowledge.
Asks JSH’s help in naming cirripedes, on which he is working. Believes he has made "some very curious points".
Expects a sixth child [Francis] in August.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 2 July [1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A18–A20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1189 |
To S. P. Woodward 10 July 1848
Summary
Is pleased to support SPW’s application for a position in the fossil department at the British Museum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 10 July 1848 |
Classmark: | British Museum (Central Archive Staff Applications and Testimonials: S. P. Woodward CE33/710/45) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1189A |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle 13 July [1848]
Summary
Reports on the effect of potato blight in his crop.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | 13 July [1848] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 22 July 1848, p. 491 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1189F |
To Edward Cresy [15 July 1848]
Summary
Encloses note from William Buckland [1190], stating that no appointment of surveyor is to be made. Thinks further recommendation would be unwise, but will write to Sir Henry De la Beche and [Robert?] Hutton if EC wishes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Date: | [15 July 1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 307 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1191 |
To Edward Cresy [20 July 1848]
Summary
Will speak to Richard Owen, Henry De la Beche, and Robert Hutton concerning appointment for EC.
Leaving for sea-side on Saturday.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Date: | [20 July 1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 308 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1192 |
To Francis Boott 20 August 1848
Summary
CD will write to A. A. Gould for aid. Thanks for sympathy and assistance about chloroform.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Boott |
Date: | 20 Aug 1848 |
Classmark: | James Cummins, Bookseller (dealer) (website viewed 7 February 2012) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1195 |
To J. E. Gray 29 August [1848]
Summary
It had been suggested to CD that JEG intended to anticipate some of his work on the Cirripedia. CD doubted this because JEG had suggested that CD commence the work and has assisted throughout; however, CD sought assurances regarding JEG’s intentions as he wished that "what little novelty there yet remained in the subject, should be the reward of my work". CD apologises for having spoken to JEG on the subject and will communicate JEG’s assurances to those who had expressed their opinions regarding JEG’s intentions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
Date: | 29 Aug [1848] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/205/7/256-257) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1197 |
To Charles Lyell [24 September 1848]
Summary
Congratulations on CL’s knighthood.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [24 Sept 1848] |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection AIL Coll 203 B) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1198 |
To Henri Milne-Edwards 1 September [1848]
Summary
Describes his cirripede work. Asks whether HM-E can arrange for him to borrowspecimens, especially of species described in Dumont d’Urville, Voyage of"Astrolabe" [1830–2]. Lists species that interesthim.
Compliments HM-E on his Crustacés [1834–40].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henri Milne-Edwards |
Date: | 1 Sept [1848] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.76) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1199 |
To Augustus Addison Gould 3 September [1848]
Summary
Describes his research on cirripedes. Asks to borrow specimens. Comments on previous work on the subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Augustus Addison Gould |
Date: | 3 Sept [1848] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Augustus A. Gould papers, 1831–66 MS Am 1210: 224) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1200 |
To William Hellier Baily 5 October 1848
Summary
Send thanks for informing him of barnacles and asks that they be sent, directed to him, to the Geological Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Hellier Baily |
Date: | 5 Oct 1848 |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 November 1963) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1201 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 October [1848]
Summary
CD makes progress with barnacles. Describes "supplemental" males in detail. In working out metamorphosis, their crustacean homologies followed automatically.
CD opposes appending first describer’s name to specific name.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Oct [1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 112a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1202 |
To Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz 22 October 1848
Summary
Thanks LA and sends thanks to A. A. Gould for specimens. Describes principal findings of his research on cirripedes. Is obliged for information Joseph Leidy gave about cirripede eyes. Describes anatomical features and chief aspects of growth. Describes discovery of parasitic males and a species parasitic upon other cirripedes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz |
Date: | 22 Oct 1848 |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1419: 274) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1205 |
To J. W. Lubbock [December 1848–9]
Summary
Obliged for drawings and coins. Cannot tell what the stone is.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John William Lubbock, 3d baronet |
Date: | [Dec 1848–9] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1210 |
To John Higgins 6 December [1848]
Summary
Discusses his account. Mentions death of his father and his own inheritance.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 6 Dec [1848] |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/23) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1211 |
To J. W. Lubbock [December 1848–9]
Summary
Thanks JWL for the use of a schoolroom.
Arranges to meet JWL’s son [John] to discuss use of microscope.
Mentions illness.
Thanks JWL for his paper ["Shooting stars", London Edinburgh & Dublin Philos. Mag. 32 (1848): 81–8, 170–2; 35 (1849): 356–7].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John William Lubbock, 3d baronet |
Date: | [Dec 1848–9] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.77) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1212 |
To B. W. Hawkins [1848–51]
Summary
Testimonial recommending B. Waterhouse Hawkins [for a teaching post].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins |
Date: | [1848–51] |
Classmark: | Library of Congress Manuscript Division (George P. Merrill collection, box 4, file H) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13869 |
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Darwin, C. R. | |
Breton, Philip le | (1) |
Calvert, Harry | (1) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Grenville, G. N. | (1) |
Head, E. W. | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Heywood, James | (1) |
Horsman, Edward | (1) |
Kay, Joseph | (1) |
King, P. J. L. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Percival, E. F. | (1) |
Phillips, T. J. | (1) |
Phillips-Jodrell, T. J. | (1) |
Powell, Baden | (1) |
Price, Bonamy | (1) |
Robartes, T. J. A. | (1) |
Senior, N. W. | (1) |
Verney, Harry | (1) |
Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (1) |
Yorke, H. G. R. | (1) |
Cresy, Edward, Jr | (6) |
Darwin, Emma | (6) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (6) |
Herschel, J. F. W. | (5) |
Gray, J. E. | (4) |